Raelene Sharp

b. 1957

Raelene Sharp is a regular finalist in portrait prizes and has had works hung in the Shirley Hannan Prize, the Black Swan Prize and the Archibald. Her portrait of actor John Wood won the Archibald Packing Room Prize of 2012 and she won the Shirley Hannan Portrait Prize in 2006. Her portrait subjects include newsreader Jennifer Keyte, television chef Iain Hewitson, comedian Mark Mitchell, neuroscientist Fred Mendelsohn, virologist Ruth Bishop, actors Ben Mendelsohn and Gary Sweet, athlete Raelene Boyle and singer Russell Morris. Based in Melbourne, she is a member of Portrait Artists Australia and paints corporate and family portraits on commission.

Sharp chose a faint tracery of DNA as the backdrop for her portrait of Suzanne Cory.

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